He wrote that the elite k
He wrote that the elite keep power in capitalism by providing the public with "goodies" in his work 
Legitimation Crisis. This author also wrote about the growth of a "literary" version of the title concept out
 of the "bourgeois" version in a work that discusses the emergence of the modern social welfare state. This
 man also challenged Max Weber's definition of rationalization in a work that defines aesthetic, therapeutic,
 and explicative discourse. That work claims that the goal of the title interaction is mutual understanding.
 For 10 points, name this author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and The Theory of
 Communicative Action.
He wrote that the elite keep power in capitalism by providing the public with "goodies" in his work 
Legitimation Crisis.
Jurgen {Habermas}